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Jeremy M. Kahn, M.D., M.S.

Instructor

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Blockley Hall, Room 723
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160

tel.: 215-573-7791
fax: 215-614-0869
email:jmkahn@mail.med.upenn.edu

Education:

  • M.D.: University of Virginia
  • Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals
  • Fellowship: University of Washington Medical Center

 Dr. Kahn is an Instructor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a member of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine. He joined the Division after completing a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a Master of Science in epidemiology.

Dr. Kahn’s research program involves the organization, management, and financing of critical care services. Specific areas of interest include ICU workforce and staffing, quality measurement, benchmarking, and regionalization of critical care. He holds a career development award from the National Institutes of Health, investigating the effect of ICU organization on the outcomes of care for patients with acute lung injury and other types of acute respiratory failure.

Representative publications:

Kahn JM, Matthews FA, Angus DC, Barnato AE, Rubenfeld GD. Barriers to implementing the Leapfrog Group recommendations for intensivist physician staffing: a survey of ICU directors. J Crit Care 2007;22:97-103.

Barnato AE, Kahn JM, Rubenfeld GD, et al. Prioritizing the organization and management of intensive care services in the United States. Crit Care Med 2007;35:1003-11.

Kahn JM, Kramer AA, Rubenfeld GD. Transferring critically ill patients out of hospital improves the standardized mortality ratio: a simulation study. Chest 2007;131:68-75.

Kahn, JM, Goss CH, Heagerty PJ, Kramer AA, O'Brien CR, Rubenfeld GD. Hospital volume and the outcomes of mechanical ventilation. N Engl J Med 2006;335:41-50.

Kahn JM, Doctor JN, Rubenfeld GD. Stress ulcer prophylaxis in mechanically ventilated patients: integrating evidence and judgment using a decision analysis. Intensive Care Med 2006;32(8):1151-8.

Kahn JM, Andersson L, Karir V, Polissar NL, Neff MJ, Rubenfeld, G. Low tidal volume does not increase sedation use in patients with acute lung injury. Crit Care Med 2005;33:766-771.

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